Goats
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Goats!
Once in a great while, my webmonkey affords me the opportunity to pay him back for all his, uh, monkeying. In this case, he wanted a logo. A goat logo. He gave me a few specifics (headshot, simple, black lines) but essentially left me free to see what I could come up with.
So I got some reference material together, and started riffing on the concept of ‘goat’. When I finished my first page of sketches (the first six designs here) I showed them to my client to get his opinion on how things were going. He sort of flapped his arms and said ‘More cartoon-y! Fewer lines! Also that one in the middle on the second row is super creepy!’
In order to reduce the creep factor, I started my second page drawing mainly goats with regular pupils (instead of the weird football pupils goats actually have) and I did my best to inject some cute. I’m not actually very good at cartoons, ‘cute’ is about as close as I get.
Luckily for me, the second page of sketches produced a winner. With a little adjusting and cleaning up, here he is:
3 Responses to Goats
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June 24, 2011 at 5:54 pmMeg said:
For the record, I really like the two on the far right of the second page. Personal logo, or something to do with the new job? I could see Webmonkey not going for the hypermasculine one with big horns (heh heh “big horns”), but that far right one is cute and looks less like it just saw goatse for the first time…
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July 3, 2011 at 6:04 pmLiz said:
Meg- It was for the application for his new job. He wrote a thing, and having a goat logo was a clever play on words. I liked the one with the curly horns, but noooo, he wanted the bug-eyed fainting goat.
Harker- Y’know, I wouldn’t have put it that way, but now that you mention it it does sort of look like he does after about four cups of coffee…
As soon as I saw that face on the splash-page, I figured your webmonkey would pick it. How not?
It’s just so… Him.